RE: case sensitivity - database setting?

But, beware of the following (From Metalink Note:30779.1):

Setting NLS_SORT to anything other than BINARY causes a sort to use a full table scan, regardless of the path chosen by the optimizer. BINARY is the exception because indexes are built according to a binary order of keys. Thus the optimizer can use an index to satisfy the ORDER BY clause when NLS_SORT is set to BINARY. If NLS_SORT is set to any linguistic sort, the optimizer must include a full table scan and a full sort in the execution plan.

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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org]On Behalf Of Allen, Brandon
Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 10:02 AM

You can set NLS_SORT=Latin:
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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org]On Behalf Of J. Dex
Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 9:41 AM

We are setting up an application (third-party out-of the-box type) and the group that is setting it up would like to set it up so that when users search for records the searches are NOT case sensitive. Is there an Oracle database setting that would facilitate this? The application vendor said it is a database issue and has to be set on the database side.

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